8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 ! Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Teleai aplt Boildlng, Federal Square E. J, STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor ■ A. H. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 3. P. McCULLOUQH. BOYD M. OGLESBY', P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members cf the Associated Press—The Associated Press is "exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or net otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. !All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. !w t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern fJc e. Avenue Building. Western office'. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris- I burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a srWragSySSgo week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1910 ' Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first teas made ; Our times are In his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see, all, nor be afraid.'' —Robert Browning. | ADVERTISE PENNA. THE automobile touring season finds Pennsylvania's main high ways in better condition than ever, except where detours are nec essary for the great road building program upon which the State has engaged. More people are seeing Pennsylvania this year from auto mobile seats than ever before. Even so, the beauties of the State are known to only a comparative few. We have as beautiful scenery as New York or New England and a greater variety. But we have failed to advertise the fact. Other States have spent thousands of dollars ex ploiting their landscape attractions. Aside from the efforts of the south ern tours promoters and Manager Wiggins, of the Penn-Harris Hotel, little has been done locally in this direction. Would it not be well for the Chambers of Commerce of large Pennsylvania cities to Join in a fund for the advertising in other States of Pennsylvania's automobile tours? The results would certainly be profit able and the expense would not fall heavily upon any one. The experi ment is worth a trial. To the noisy Hun it is "Yes" or "No." Time for further palaver has ceased. CITY PLANNING EFFORTS of the City Planning Commission to set aright the blunders of those who laid out the extreme northern section of Jhe city are responsible for the opinion expressed in Council that the Com mission should have been created a half century ago. That is true enough, for what the Commission is at present doing may not be ap parent for forty or fifty yeurs to come. Sometimes the Commission runs into a private interest that the pos sessor regards as sacred, or at least so productive of immediate personal profits that he fails to see the bene fits of a release of his own plans, or their modification for the benefit of a future generation. A study of the city map would soon convince the most short-sighted of the error of laying out streets on lots for the profit of the present owner and at the expense of the convenience of thousands of men and women who •will use them in the years to come. The interests of the city as a whole should come always before those of the individual, and to the credit of the property owners of Harris burg it may be said that with few exceptions they view the work of the Planning Commission in that light. What the Commission does now shows only on paper. The work is largely thankless, for its fruitage cannot possibly come until the pres ent commissioners have long since gone to their reward. But Harrisburg people of the coming century will rise lfP to call them blessed. GOOD RESULTS CERTAIN GOOD is bound to result from the sort of conferences which are now being held in this city with a view to improving the hous ing conditions. When the real es tate interests combine with the building operators, as was done in an important dinner conference at the Penn-Harris Hotel Thursday evening, something worth while is bound ttr- happen. In addition to the benefits of co-operation on pro k viding homes for the people, the get ting together of those upon whom SATURDAY EVENING, ' the burden chiefly rests is certain to bring about a better feeling and en hance the community spirit so nec essary to any progressive city. The housing bureau of the Cham ber of Commerce, which was estab lished recently, has developed through direct touch with those in need of homes the great importance and necessity of such a campaign as is being developed by the banking, building and real estate interests of Harrisburg. So serious is the short age that it was reported, among other items, at the real estate dinner at the Penn-Harris that a young cou ple could not be married until they found a home. The principal speak er also stated that in his large ex perience as a builder of homes in an Ohio city, the prosperity and growth of any town or city depend ed almost entirely upon the home conditions and that unless houses are provided for the great multitude of workers all interests would be affected adversely and the develop ment of the community would be re tarded, if net entirely checked. Inasmuch as the building costs are not likely to change materially for a considerable period of years, there would seem to be no Justifi cation for postponing building en terprises. As a matter of fact, building prices are more or less stabilized at the present time and there are some encouraging factors in the situation which indicate a more active and extensive building movement here. | The building, selling and financing of homes has become the leading i problem of Harrisburg and it is a good thing for the city that so many of our public-spirited people are manifesting an interest in a solution that will be at once constructive and satisfactory. PAXTANG PARK PICNIC THOUSANDS of the school Chil dren of Harrisburg had a hap py day at Paxtang Park yes terday as the guests of the Tele graph and the occasion was one of unusual interest for the hundreds of adults who shared in the festivi ties. The rivalries in the athletic and other events spurred the con testants to their best efforts and the winners were acclaimed by those who were participating with them in an interesting program. A fine spirit was shown throughout the day and the picnic proved a de lightful terminal point for the school year. Teachers and parents compared notes of the educational progress in the city and in this way a better understanding of what is being done in the Harrisburg schools resulted. This big picnic has become a red letter event in the school activities, and the Telegraph is glad to have been in some measure responsible for providing the thousands of girls and boys with an enjoyable day. SUCCESS WE NO longer define success in terms of dollars accumu lated, but dollars accumu lated honestly are a mark of suc cess. That is one reason —and the main reason —why so many men continue to pile up money beyond their needs. They like to succeed, and in most cases success brings money along with it as a badge of accomplishment. Would you suc ceed? Would you acquire money? Well, here is a San Diego man's re ceipt: The father of Success is Work. The mother of Success is Ambi tion. The oldest son is Common Sense. Some of the other boys are Per severance. Honesty, Thorough ness, Foresight. Enthusiasm and Co-operation. The oldest daughter is Char acter. Some of her sisters are Cheer fulness, Loyalty. Courtesy, Care, Economy, Sincerity and Har mony. Tie Baby is Opportunity. Get acquainted with the "old man" and you will be able to get along pretty well with all the rest of the family. And there are many of us who wonder why we don't get along who can't claim even distant relationship with any member of this distin guished family and have scarcely a speaking acquaintanceship with the "old man." Put them all on your calling list if you want to get along well and prosper. The Legislature having practically cleared the decks for final adjourn ment, the lawmakers will say farewell next Thursday. They have had a more or less strenuous session grow ing out of the usual Philadelphia wrangle, but in the analysis of work accomplished there will be some im portant legislation. Governor Sproul ji\as been able to guide the course of legislation in some directions that were helpful and the Legislature re posed in him unusual confidence throughout the session. A GOOD SIGN WE are beginning to see this fool Bolshevism idea in its true light, so far as America is concerned. We have come to the place where some of our newspa pers and labor publications can joke about it, which indicates that we are no longer hysterical and can appraise the thing at its true value. When we can laugh at a bugaboo the bugaboo loses its frightfulness. Says one editor: "We know Bolshevism cannot perpetrate itself, for who ever heard of a female Bolshevist? And a labor journal contributor sends in thte: A Bolshevist by the Volga's brim, A simple Bolshevist was to him, and nothing more; But when he sailed across the sea, Coming to live near him and me. And came around our wives to seek. We made him spell It BAWLshe vlk. And beat him sore. Make fun of American Bolshe vism. Laugh it out of school. But if you meet a Bolshevik do as our labor Journal friends did and the Russian terror will depart hastily whence It came. T>otfKc eU T > uto4|6raitca By the Kx-Committeeman The Pennsylvania Legislature, which will enter its final week on Monday with the business of the session in better shape than known in years according to officials here, will have some ltvety times in either house at the beginning of the week. Half a dozen bitls which have oc cupied considerable attention the lost week or ten days, will be taken up in various ways. The greatest interest is being taken in the administration effort to have the anti-sedition bill defeat reconsidered and if this is done it is the plan to pass the bill Monday night and have the Senate dispose of it by Wednesday night. The Conservation Department bill is tied up in a House committee and an attempt may be made to get it out, while plans are being made to se cure reconsideration of the defeat of the telephone merger bill. The compensation amendment bill is to be laid before the House Mon day when labor leaders hope to re store the section making a new basis of computation which was cut out of the bill in a House committee. Senate committees have the bill establishing beverages containing two and three-fourth per cent of alcohol as intoxicating and the fish ermen's license measure. A hear ing will be held on the former. The general appropriation bill will probably go to a conference com mittee and be passed the last night of the session. —Records of the legislature show that 108 bills have been re called from the Governor for amendment or to avoid veto, estab lishing a record for any Legislature. Over thirty were recalled this week. —Governor Sproul has signed 246 general acts and 39 appropriation bills. His vetoes number ?6. —Secretary of Agriculture Fred Rasmussen has appointed W. A. Mc- Cubbin, a graduate of Harvard and lately director of plant pathology of the province of Ontario, to be assistant director of the bureau of plant industry under the Jones act reorganizing the State Department of Agriculture. Prof. J. G. Sanders, zoologist for the last two years, will be director of the bureau at a salary of $5,000. The assistant will re ceive a salary of $3,000. P. T. Barnes, of the bureau, will likely become chief clerk. Under the plans made Mr. Mc- Cubbin will have charge of plant disease research and control, one of the Ventures being a movement for weed elimination in which the new assistant specialized. Many acres of valuable farm land in Pennsylvania have been almost ruined by uncon trolled weeds which have spread with rapidity the last few years. He will also direct the campaign against orchard, wheat, potato, white pine, corn and other pests which have been giving trouble. In this connection there will be util ized the collection of all plants and weeds indigenous to Pennsylvania which has been made by Prof. E. M. Gross, of the University of Pitts burgh. This collection, which al ready numbers over 2,000 speci mens, will be used for identification and for collation of data for preser vation and destruction, as the case may require. —The precedent established in the bill creating an additional ,ludge for Lehigh county has been follow ed in amendments to the Washing ton county orphans' court judge measure, presented by Senator Jo seph A. Herron. Under the changes there is to be no appointment, but the voters will choose the new judge in November. The Governor will thus be saved from necessity of having to make a selection. A num ber of mon have been mentioned for the place when created. The Cam bria county orphan's court bill re quired the Governor to appoint. —The amended Public Welfare Commission bill shows that in event that it is desirable in opinion of the Governor to discontinue the commission he may do so and as sign what funds remain in hand for an- designated activity of the De partment of Public Instruction, Health or Labor and Industry, which have been co-operating with the commission since it replaced the State Council of National Defence as thp official body for Pennsylvania last winter. The bill came from the appropriations committee, which amended it as desired bv the Gover nor. The appropriation Is made half a million dollars and the provisions for a "Governor's Council," to be composed of such citizens as the Governor might name has been cut out. the plan having been aban doned. —The final amendments have been made to the Bureau of Markets bill and link up the Bureau of Stand ards which will designate the stand ard weight and measures. The two bureaus will make joint rules which will have the force of laws. Dragon's Eye Shook Earth [From the Buffalo News] The imperial dragon has vanished from the Chinese flag, but China's favorite monster continues to adorn her temples, homes and fabrics. The dragon is essentially a Chinese creation—a fascinating, mythologic al being, without which no Chinese fairy tale or legend is complete. One o-f the mightiest of the Chinese dragons lives, according to tradition, in a georgeous palace with in the sea. From this stronghold he rules the water and favors the earth with rain or decrees a drought, ac cording to his whim. Another drag on, apparently less powerful, lives in the ground beneath Tungchow. This dragon at one time troubled the people greatly by winking his eye and thus causing earthquakes. But the dragon experts of Tungchow lo cated the dragon's eye, and ordered a pagoda built directly over it. That put a stop at once to the winking. Another monster causes whirlwinds. He is less easily tamed, and must I often be petitioned to keep him from losing his temper and tearing up a few cities. In the days of the empire the dragon was a symbol to be handled and spoken of with care. The em peror's private dragon, for instance, boasted five claws, whereas the less distinguished members of the dragon family could show but four. For an ordinary citizens to wear a robe em broidered with a five-clawed dragon, or to possess a vase or other piece of property bearing the royal in signia. was lese majesty, and the of fender would pay a heavy penalty. The emperor regarded himself as a dragon, and spoke of himself ac cordingly in proclamations and speeches. China still displays her favorite design, but the dragon itself is al most as much out of power as the emperor. Dragons do not seem to fit into the scheme of a republic— even a high strung Oriental republic with its faith in spirits, good and •vil, unabated. BAIUUBBURaIIMIIII TELEGRAPH IT'S A HARD, HARD UFE By BRIGGS IST HOLC • ZMD.-'OM MY 3RD -" I'LL MA*E| 4-TH- "MCV/E* STH- "VA/HAD Gth- OH OABF!* • 6OI>O START" SAMC" . IT, OP" MIMD" I SAY?* 4 3 6 6 3 Z 7TH-"OH-WSH.- <3 T -;W F 7 7 10 . 3 5 5 |3TMHAFIEO 14-TH-" THATS PAR 15"TM-' I MT3SGT> I6TH-"OMAM T I*7TH-" I MAD .. 1 BTH -" QLJJ- 00 !!' COULOMT A PUTT" THSAC! 7 " BAO LUCK " DO BCTTCR 3 4" 6 "F" 8 a ll Books and Magazines "All the Brothers Were Valiant,"' by Ben Ames Williams; a story of the sea, suggestive in its strength and ruggedness of some of the work of Jack .London—this is what Mr. Williams has given us in this book. A voyage is made in search of a brother who is thought to have been shipwrecked on his last trip. The scene shifts to a mid-sea island, where the brother, pagan, pirate, pearl hunter, is found. Here there is high adventure in an unusual set ting; hidden treasure, mutinies, tropic love, all these are present. The story thrills with its incident and arouses admiration for its splen did character portrayal. (The Mac- Millan Company, publishers.) The Houghton Mifflin Company have Just issued ($1.50), lan Hay's latest book "The Last Million; How They Invaded France and Eng land." It's a tine companion vol ume of "The First Hundred Thous and," and tells graphically the story of America's entrance and partici pation in the war. Major Beith dedicates this book "to that born lighter and modern crusader, the American doughboy." "The Last Million" begins with the crossing of the Atlantic, and ends with the signing of the arm istice, following American lighters all the way. Major Beith, be it re marked, spent some months with our troops, and was with them dur ing several offensives; and he suc ceeds "remarkably in showing up some of the doughboys' experiences through the doughboys' own eyes. Here is what a reviewer says of the book in part: "Major Beith has cast his book in readable form, partly narrativa, wherein three American doughboys wander about London and have their first taste of the trenches and the front line, and a group of officers experience something of England as well as something of war. He has even in troduced a charming American nurse —two, in fact—and a bit of a love story. But all this is to make simpler and more pleasant the pre sentation of facts, impressions, pic tures. For the most part the book is bright, breezy, humorous. Ma jor Beith makes use of a good deal of American slang, and uses it bet ter than many a writer we know! His tale of three doughboys and the Scotchman in London is delight ful, as is the young officers' meeting with Lady Wyvern-Grypbon, whom thev have dubbed, in private, Lady Whisky-Syphon. There are several gay little anecdotes, too. Yet there is drama in this book of "The Last Million." There is pain and sacrifice, *oo. And at the end there is a stirring picture of that "day of glory" in Paris, when the armistice was signed. "The war is won,' 'was the triumphant word of that triumphant day. Now that the war is won, "The Last Million is a good book for us to read. An American Question [Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.] Chairman Will H. Hays of the Re publican national committee has the 1 faculty of saying something when he talks.' He has the gift of straight forward speech and there is never any doubt of his meaning. His clear cut definition of the attitude of the Republican party toward the treaty of peace with Germany is typical. He declares it is in no sense a partisan question. "It is an American ques tion." Democratic attempts to make it appear that the issue is one of partisan politics are repelled by Mr. Hays, who pledges the Republican party to the same spirit of patriotism which it displayed during the great war and without which that war could not have been won. As the discussion of the peace treaty in the Senate takes definite form the patriotic purpose of those members, whether Republican or Democratic, who insist on the closest scrutiny and correction of doubtful or dangerous provisions, will become increasingly clear to the country. Al ready there are signs that the people are beginning to think for them selves and to ask questions concern ing this or that section of the treaty. The campaign of education is bear ing fruit. No more than the Senate will the country stand for having the treaty, with its League of Nations supplement, rushed through at the crack of the whip. It is indeed "an American question," in the righteous determination of which Republicans will play their customary patriotic part. City's Progressi Praised by Penrose United States Senator Boies Pen rose, who has known Harrisburg for a generation, voiced his admira tion for its spirit of civic pride while in this city during the week after his tour of Central Pennsylvania counties. The Senator referred to the enterpriee which gave the city its new hotel, and, looking from the windows of his suite in the Penn- Harris, spoke about the progress which had been made here since he first came to the city. The Senator spoke some time ago before the Rotary Club about the comparison between the Harrisburg of his younger days as a legislator and the capital city of to-day, and this week sounded a note of re newed praise for its municipal progress. "The large and increasing area of improved streets is greatly to the credit of your people," he said. "I understand there are now about eighty miles of asphalt highways and the impression made upon the visitor is distinctly favorable. "Well-paved streets, like good roads," continued the Senator, "are the outstanding illustrations of a community's enterprise and indi cate the public spirit of the people. Harrisburg has admirably met pub lic expectations in this regard. "As I recall the earlier years and the lack of many things which be long to a modern city and realize how splendidly Harrisburg has overcome old conditions I feel that the people here merit the most sin cere commendation. They have measured up in every way to the re sponsibility of the municipality with respect to co-operation with the Commonwealth in providing a prop er setting for the Capitol. "It has been a real satisfaction to me to watch the big improvement PAY AND SERVICE [Philadelphia Press.) Governor Coolidge, of Massachu setts, has given to the Legislature of this State, and to its citizens as well, some real thoughts over which to ponder on the question of the sal aries of public officials. The Legisla ture passed a bill which Increased the salaries of its members from one thousand dollars a year to fifteen hundred dollars, and bringing the present Legislature under the provi sions of the measure. It passed by an overwhelming vote. And it has just met with as overwhelming a veto at the hands 0 f the Governor. The position which he take:} on the question is very interesting, for it is a question that is by no means local and that is constantly coming to the front in divers ways and places. The Massachusetts Governor re minds the Legislature that service in that body is not obligatory, but op tional; that it is not to be under taken as a profession or a means of livelihood; that it is a voluntary public service. He says in his veto message that if value for services were the criterion for payment, there would be as many different salaries as there arc members of the Legis lature. He declares that when mem bership in the law-making body of the State Is sought as a means of livelihood legislation will pass from a public function to a private en terprise, that men do not serve in a Legislature for pay, but seek work and places of responsibility, and find in that seeking, not in their pay, their honor. He points out that it is of infinite importance to demonstrate that leg islation is used not for the benefit of the legislator, but ot the public. He decries the idea that legislative seat and a job are in the same category and that each must be reckoned In dollars and cents. It is very straight forward speaking, especially on the part of a Governor who comes up for re-election this fall, and who rebukes a body of men who are of political power in their different communities. It is a courageous veto and raises a very important question in regard to the pay of public officials that applies eoually i to all States. undertakings from time to time and observe the intelligent way in which the city has gone ahead with its inevitable development. Nothing could be more attractive than the remarkable treatment of your River Front and the line park system which has been established here is far ahead of most cities the size of Harrisburg. The future is full of promise and it is not difficult to visualize the spanning of the river with more ornate bridges, the ex pansion of your residential districts and the erection of many tine pub lic buildings. The fact that the city and county are about to pro vide a modern combination build ing for the uses of the city and county is a further indication of the wide-awake character of your pub lic officials. Such a building will stand us a monument to the enter prise of the community and ought to be designed in harmony with the other public structures in the sume neighborhood. "Of course, the State is going ahead with the comprehensive de velopment of the Capitol Park and the city, as I am informed, is doing its full share in this important pub lic undertaking. Nothing could be finer than the proposed memorial viaduct linking the eastern section j of the city with the Capitol grounds and providing a dignified approach from the main highway to the east. Governor Sproul and his associates on the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings are demonstrating i proper leadership in the compre hensive plans for the permanent treatment of the Capitol buildings and grounds. State and city work ing together In the future as in the past will provide the environment for the Capitol that will comport with the dignity and importance of the Commonwealth." The Knox Resolution [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] Senator Knox explains that all that is intended by his resolution introduced in the Senate yesterday can be attained by the incorporation at Paris of a three line addition to the treaty peace reserving to any nation signing the instrument the right to further separate and full consideration of the question of a League of Nations. This was his position last Decem ber, but it has been greatly strength ened since by the secrecy and mys tery attending the Paris conference, as well as by the revelations of the old diplomacy at work under the cover of the League of Nations. There has been a growing feeling among Americans that the differ ence between the League of Nations they were promised or expected and what they are now being offered have so complicated the situation that with the conflicting and cen sored news from Paris, it is becom ing almost impossible to form a judgment. The result has been a disposition to demand further en lightenment. to have more clearly stated just what we are being com mitted to, what the probable and possible obligations of our partici pation in such a league framed un der such conditions will be. The easy faith with which we hoped for the best is being supplanted by a fear, perhaps as unreasonable, for the worst. But either way we want to know more about the engage ment into which we are to enter and the Knox resolution will afford the time necessary for that popular discussion and consideration. Air Pilots in Eye Drill [Chicago Tribune.] The royal air force of England has instituted an eye drill that has made many splendid pilots out of men who otherwise would have been useless. It was discovered that a large per centage of men only use one eye at a time, and in the early days pilots were not tested for eye balance. Many men were then passed into the air service who could never land cor rectly. When these deficiencies were discovered a school was formed and under an eye specialist twice a day airmen undergoing the cure were pa raded for eye drill and taught how to use both their eyes at the same time. The result was that 96 per cent, of the men who would have been bad pilots became good ones In a little while. JUNE 21, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER ELEVEN "Yes! Incredible as it may seem the Boche did occasionally capture some Americans," said Major Frank C. Mahin. of the Army Recruiting station, 325 Market street, Harris burg. "From June 2, when we went up front, until November 11, my division lost ninety men captured and took about twenty-seven hun dred Boche. Somewhat out of pro portion you will say, but remember our boys were harder to catch and when you had cornered them they very frequently died fighting. And even after you had captured them alive it was some job to hold them, as our "cultured friends(?)' the Boche discovered. I shall never for get how disgraced the division felt when the Boche caught their first prisoners from us. An officer and five men were ambushed, the officer was severely wounded and captured, three of the men were killed, and the other two slightly wounded and captured. If we had known where they were 1 think the whole division would have gone straight 'over the top" after them, but perhaps for tunately, we didn't know anything about it until too late, so had to grin and bear it. For days it was the sole topic of conversation, and everyone that went on patrol did his level best to get back at the Boche. About live days after they were captured who should show up one dark night but the two men who had been captured. They each had a Boche rifle, bayonet, and belt of ammunition, the identification tag of a German soldier and a few other souvenirs in the form of Boche grenades, pistols, etc. "It seems that when they were captured the officer was sent to a hospital and the two men sent to a prison camp only about twenty miles away. As soon as they ar rived at the camp they found that the Boche regulations were that at work, there should be a sentry for every American prisoner, one for every five English, one for every twelve Frenchmen, one for every twenty Italians, and an overseer for every couple hundred Russians. Those figures were afterward veri fied and found correct. The first day our two boys worked on a road and made no trouble, the second day with their picks and shovels they killed their two sentries, took their arms and escaped. It took them two days to cover the twenty intervening miles and they shot up several more Boche on the way. but eventually they got back into our lines after being prisoners for just five days." "Put Down Red Flag!" "There is room 4n this country for but one flag," he said, "and that is the American flag. Put down the red flag. The red flag is the enemy of everything we have striven to build up during our national life. Kill it whenever you see it. It stands for nothing which our Gov ernment stands for. It is against everything we have struggled for. It is against the integrity of the family, the State and the Nation. It only floats whdre cowards are in power and where democracy has been replaced by mob rule. It rep resents everything we want to nvotd. These are times of dangerous world psychology. The barriers between ordered Government and chaos are downed in some nations and trem bling in others. Avoid the danger i ous doctrines of the hour that are t masquerading under the banner of j "Liberal Ideas and Progress." It is i no time now for unthinking action, i The world must once more get on ! an even keel and settle down after ! the upheavals of the great war. j It is time now to keep our feet on ! the ground, our ideals and purposes | high, our eyes on God." Major I General Leonard Wood. Time to Build a Home [K"rom Rocky Mountain News] Four years ago a farmer sold 150 I hogs to build a home costing $2,900. | Recently a neighbor sold the same | number of hogs, built a replica of I the house and put $5,388 in the : bank. This probably is one of the ! most forcible Illustrations of the | fact that building materials have ad- I vanced less than any other commo ! dities on the American market. Re i cent figures of the United States ' bureau of labor statistics ahow an advance of 57 per cent, in building material, whereas food, clothing, house furnishings, etc., have scored far greater advances. It Is time now to build the home. Delay will mean only a higher coat. lEbttumj (Elfat Tuesday, July J, the bass and Sua quehanna salmon Ashing season opens in Pennsylvania and thou sands of fishermen have been plan ning for weeks to be on the streams at sun-up for a renewal of their favorite sport. The bass fisherman is just as keen and ardent a sports man as he who wades the icy spring water streams in early spring in search of the gamey trout. Indeed the twain are often one, for the fishermun is like the gunner, he has his favorite lines of sport, but a day afield whether it be for one kind of game or another is a day afield —or astream and not to be missed. And indeed the black bass—big mouth or small mouth—not to mention the greedy little rock bass and crappie —can match the gamiest trout and give him odds. There is nothing more interesting than an argument between a bass fisherman and a dry fly enthusiast who sees no virtue in fishing outside the quest for trout with a four ounce rod and tackle to match. • • • Most of the early fishing will be done with live bait—the festive shiner, the long-lived "stone-roller** catfish and the ugly little helgrimtte being the favorites hereabouts, with night crawlers and even the humble red worm coming into their own upon occasion. It used to be thought quite the proper thing to sit all day in a boat above a riffle in mid-river taking such fish as designed to come along and take the bait so tempt ingly offered, and there are occa sions when that is still the way to land a big string. But your real sportsman no longer waits for the bass to come to him, but he goes after the bass—tracks 'em right into their lairs, as it were—and he pays small attention to the rivers. The creeks are his happy hunting grounds and he scorns live bait. Armed with casting rod and smooth running reel he slips a half-dozen various colored "plugs" into his pocket along with a sandwich or two and he is off for a half day 'ln the creeks. Yes, in the creeks, for the caster is also a wader. His "plugs" are the hideous looking wooden bait of wood and metal with hooks attached you see in the win dows of snorting goods stores and when he drops one of them over the home of a big black bass, Mr. bass just naturally gets frightfully hun gry or awfully hungry, nobody has ever been able to decide which, and "he rushes out, grabs the bait and finds himself in the midst of a fight for life with a determined angler at the other end of the line. Those who fish with "plugs" say there is no other sport to equal it unless it be fly casting for bass which is also practiced extensively hereabouts, the outfit differing little from that of the trout fishermen except that the flies are heavier and of different type and the "spinner" is often used. Certain it is that the "plug" and the "fly" for those who know how to use them yield bigger strings than fall to the lot of the live bait fisher men. • • • Then there is also the trouble to get live bait and the difficulty of keeping it alive. Even the hardy "stone roller" catfish some times succumbs to heat and long Journeys and they are high in price and hard to get. The "plug" and "fly** en thusiasts buy once or twice during a season and their troubles In that direction are over. However much they run to other baits the average fishermun likes to have & few red worms along, and these too, are hard to get in mid-summer. Some downtown sporting goods dealer could make a hit with his patrons and money for himself by keeping a supply of worms on hand for anglers suddenly seized with the fever or who have no time to dig bait. This is a hint that some en terprising boy might capitalize. And where do the bass fisher men go? Oh, each one has his fa vorite spots. Most all the creeks hereabouts are fished and there are some who venture as far away as Pine Creek, away up in Tioga comi ty, above Jersey Shore, which is one of the finest bass streams In the country and where fly and "plug" fishing is very good. Among those who fish this stream is Harry Thair who has a cottage along the moun tain. There are many other fishing lodges there, too. • • • New York is having trouble pre serving its old Fort Washington from falling into the hands of real estate dealers who would use it for building purposes. The people of the metropolis have nothing on Har rtsburg. Governor Pennypacker tried to save our own Fort Wash ington from the invasion of the real estate developer and as a historic memorial park, but the Legislature failed to see it his way and to-day our old Fort Washington is likely to disappear as has many another historic shrine. • • • Sunday parties on the river are commencing to come into their own. The steamers that tow the sand barges and act as tenders to the dredges have been busy the last few Sundays taking parties to islands and yesterday morning there were half a dozen boats plying the waters of the river and taking Sunday bath ers and picnic parties to islands. It was pretty warm for trips on the river, but a couple of Sunday swims appeared to overcome any feelings on that score. • • • One of the prize stories about trout prosecutions to reach this city is of the fining of an up-State man over S3OO. He had gone fishing and had thirty trout which/ did not meet the State law. He became "sassy" about it and the authorities insisted on the maximum fine. I" WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Col. Daniel Wentz, who had charge of fuel for the American Army in France, is a prominent Philadelphia and one of the best posted men in the State on coal matters. —E. J. Cattell, the Philadelphia city statistician, says he has been making a speech a day so far this spring and summer and varying It by two and three a day. —Judge J. McF. Carpenter, of Pittsburgh, who refused to charter a national antitobacco corporation, is one of the oldest members of the Allegheny bench. —Secretary of Agriculture Raa mussen has been attending the spe cial exercises at State College. r DQ YOU KNOW ZD That Harris burg's river front treatment has attracted attention of New England cities? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Zion Church has been located at its present place since the War Of 1811.
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